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Xincoln tbe patriot 

A Program for Lincoln's Birthday. 

By Alice M. Kellogg. 

Decorations.— The character of tlie celebration should strike a patri- 
otic note. Let the triune colors be prominent in flags, bunting, pennants, 
draperies. Lengths of cheese-cloth cut into three widths, and fastened 
with rosettes, make a pretty festoon at the cornices ; or they may be carried 
from the centre of the ceiling to the four corners in a series of radiating 
lines. Small flags may be distributed as badges, and waved during the 
singing uf a patriotic song, flags mounted like banners may be used as 
screens and placed before the stove, wood-box, etc. Little girls in white 
dresses spangled with blue stars, with red sashes about their waists, may 
perform any little offices for the teacher. Ushers may wear shoulder 
sashes of red, white, and blue ribbons. A large portrait of Lincoln should 
be in a prominent place, the frame overhung with a flag. Fh(jtographs 
and engravings that pertain to Lincoln's history may be pasted on card- 
board and fastened to the walls. 

Music. — All the well-known patriotic songs are introduced in the pro- 
gram. Distribute copies of the words among the audience, and let every- 
one present participate in this feature of the exercises. The Riverside 
Song Book, "Liberty Bell," "Song Patriot," "Centennial Collection." 
and " Patriotic Songs of America," furnish songs in the spirit of the occa- 
sion. Sousa's instrumental marches are inspiriting for an opening num- 
ber, and the new " El Capitan " and " Rasmus on Parade." 

Lincoln the Patriot. {Place these zvords in a 
conspicuous position npon the blackboard or zvall.) 

1. Opening march on the piano and singing of 
" America." 

2. Recitations for thirteen pupils, ''Lincoln the 
Patriot." 

a. A Second Father of his Country. — Ray 
Palmer. 

b. The typical American, pure and simple. — 
Asa Gray. 



Acknoivledgments. — Through the courtesy of Charles Scribner's Sons 
lines from R. H. Stoddard's Poems are used'; through Houghton, Mifflin 
& Company, extracts from Mrs. I'helps-^\'ard, J. R. Lowell, W'hittier, 
and Maurice Thompson. 

Copyright, 1897, by E. L. tv. i.logg & Co., New York. 



2 LINCOLN THE PATRIOT 

c. Washington was the Father, and Lincoln the 
Saviour, of his Country. — H. L. Daives. 

d. A patriot without a superior, his monument is 
a country preserved. — C. S. Hai-rijigtoii. 

e. Patriot, statesman, emancipator, his name is 
immortal, and his memory will be cherished through 
all the advancing ages. — W. H. Gibson. 

f. His wisdom, his accurate perceptions, his vigor 
of intellect, his humor, and his unselfish patriotism 
are known to all. — Cyrus Noi'tJirop. 

g. A patriot without guile, a politician without 
cunning or selfishness, a statesman of practical sense 
rather than fine-spun theory. — Andrew SJicruian. 

h. Next to Washington, the Father of our Inde- 
pendence, stands Abraham Lincoln, the martyr of 
our Union, in the line of our Presidents. — Philip 
Schaff. 

i. He was a patriot who was ever willing to make 
personal sacrifices for his patriotism.. — Abrain S. 
Hcivitt. 

j. Under the providence of God he was, next to 
Washington, the greatest instrument for the preser- 
vation of the Union and the integrity of the coun- 
try; and this was brought about chiefly through 
his strict and faithful adherence to the Constitution 
of his country. — Peter Cooper. 

k. Abraham Lincoln stands out on the pages of 
American history, unique, grand, and peculiar. 
As honest, unselfish, and patriotic as Washington, 
he was his superior as an orator and logician, and 
dealt successfully with larger and graver matters. — 
Willard Warren. 

I, A man of great ability, pure patriotism, un- 
selfish nature, full of forgiveness to his enemies, 
bearing malice toward none, he proved to be the 
man above all others for the great struggle through 



LINCOLN THE PATRIOT. 3 

which the nation had to pass to place itself among 
the greatest in the family of nations. His fame 
will grow brighter as time passes and his great work 
is better understood. — U. S. Grant. 

1)1. The more the smoke of party strife clears 
away, as we recede from the times of Abraham 
Lincoln and the civil war, the grander does the 
form of the Martyr President stand forth as the 
representative of sagacious statesmanship and un- 
sulh'ed patriotism. — John Avery. 

3 Singing of " Hail, Columbia! " 

4. Recitation, " To the Spirit of Abraham Lin- 
coln." (The Reunion at Gettysburg twenty-five 
years after the battle.) 

Shade of our greatest, O look down to-day ! 

Here the long, dread midsummer battle roared, 
And brother in brother plunged the accursed sword ; — 

Here foe meets foe once more in proud array, 
Yet not as once to harry and to slay, 

But to strike hands, and with sublime accord 
Weep tears heroic for the souls that soared , 

Quick from eartli's carnage to the starry way. 
Each fought for wliat he deemed the people's good, 

And proved his bravery with his offered life. 
And sealed his honor with his outpoured blood ; 

But the Eternal did direct the strife, 
And on this sacred field one patriot host 

Now calls thee father, — dear, majestic ghost ! 

— RicJiard Watson Gilder. 

5. Composition, "The Boyhood of Lincoln." 
(The cabin in which Lincoln was born, February 

1 2th, 1809, consisted of one room with a door but 
no window, and open cracks through which the 
winds, rain, and snows of winter, and swarms of 
mosquitoes in summer, could easily penetrate. It 
was the home on a clearing near Hodgcnsville, Ken- 
tucky, where Abraham's father had taken up land 



4 LINCOLN THE PATRIOT. 

for a farm. With his elder sister Abraham went 
to school, and in order to study at night he tied 
together spicewood bushes and burned them for 
light. His mother taught him all she knew of the 
Bible, fairy tales, and country legends. Moving to 
an uncleared tract in Indiana in 1816, young Abra- 
ham was set to work to clear a field for corn, and 
to help in the home building. Besides his own 
f-firm work, carpentry, and cabin.et-making, he was 
a ' ' hired boy " on neighboring farms, where he re- 
ceived twenty-five cents a day. As a ferryman on 



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From " Century Book of Famous Americans." By permission of the Cen* 
tury Company. 

the Mississippi, going to and from New Orleans, 
Lincoln gained his earliest experiences of life. His 
entire reading as a boy — not books of his own — were 
the Bible, ^sop's " Fables," " Robinson Crusoe," 
"Pilgrim's Progress," a " History of the United 
States," Weems's " Life of Washington," and the 
" Statutes of Lidiana." He pored over the biography 
of the First President with astonishing fervor, and 
many years afterwards, when addressing the Senate 
of New Jersey at Trenton, referred to the impres- 
sion it had made upon him. " I remember," he said, 
' ' all the accounts given of the battle-fields and strug- 
gles for the liberties of the country, and none fixed 



LINCOLN TUB PATRIOT. 5 

themselves upon my imagination so deeply as the 
struggle here at Trenton. The crossing of the 
river, the contest with the Hessians, the great 
hardships endured at that time, all fixed themselves 
on my memory more than any single Revolution- 
ary event. I recollect thinking then, boy even 
though I was, that there must have been something 
more than common that these men struggled for." 
Other books from neighbors within a circuit of fifty 
miles Lincoln borrowed and devoured, not only by 
reading but by copying long extracts, using boards 
as a temporary repository when his paper and copy- 
books gave out.) 

6. Recitation, " One of the People." 

A laboring man, with horny hands, 
Who swung the axe, who tilled his lands, 
Who shrank from nothing new, 
But did as poor men do ! 

One of the People ! Born to be 
Their curious Epitome ; ■* 

To share, yet rise above. 
Their shifting hate and love. 

Common liis mind (it seemed so then), 
His thoughts the thoughts of other men: 
Plain were his words, and poor — 
But now they will endure ! 

No hasty fool, of stubborn will. 
But prudent, cautious, pliant, still; 
Who, since his work was good, 
Would do it as he could. 

No hero, this, of Roman mould ; 

Nor like our stately sires of old ; 

Perhaps he was not great — ' 

But he preserved the State ! i 



6 LINCOLN THE PATRIOT. 

O honest face, which all men knew ! 
O tender heart, but known to few ! 
O Wonder of the Age, 
Cut off by tragic Rage ! 

—R. H. Stoddard. 

7. Readings, " Lincoln's Intellectual Capacity." 
a. Mr. Lincoln was not what you would call an 
educated man. The college that he had attended was 
that which a man attends who gets up at dajdight 
to hoe corn and sits up at night to read the best 
book he can find by the side of a burning pine-knot. 
What education he had he picked up in that way. 
He had read a great many books, and all the books 
that he had read he knew. He had a tenacious 
memory, just as he had the ability to see the essen- 
tial thing. He never took an unimportant point 
and went off upon that ; but he always laid hold of 
the real thing, of the real question, and attended to 
that without attending to the others any more than 
was indispensably necessary. Thus, while we say 
that Mr. Lincoln was an uneducated man, unedu- 
cated in the sense that is recognized at any great 
college, he yet had a singularly perfect education 
in regard to everything that concerns the practical 
affairs of life. His judgment was excellent, and his 
information was always accurate. He knew what 
the thing was. He was a man of genius, and con- 
trasted with men of education, genius will always 
carry the day. I remember very well going into 
Mr. Stanton's room in the War Department on the 
day of the Gettysburg celebration, and he said, 
'* Have you seen these Gettysburg speeches? " 
'* No," said \\ "I didn't know you had them." 
He said, ''Yes, and the people will be delighted 
with them. Edward Everett has made a speech 
that will make three columns in the newspapers, 



LINCOLN THE PATRIOT. 7 

and Mr. Lincoln has made a speech of perhaps forty 
or fifty Hnes. Everett's is the speech of a scholar, 
polished to the last possibility. It is elegant and it 
is learned ; but Lincoln's speech will be read by a 
thousand men where one reads Everett's, and will 
be remembered as long as anybody's speeches are 
remembered who speaks in the English language." 
That was the truth. If you will take those two 
speeches now, you will get an idea how superior 
genius is 'o education ; how superior that intellectual 
faculty i^ which sees the vitality of a question and 
knows how to state it ; how superior that intellectual 
faculty is which regards everything with the fire of 
earnestness in the soul, with the relentless purpose 
of a heart devoted to objects beyond literature. — 
Charles A. Dana. 

b. Hrr possessed fewer liberal accomplishments 
and less culture than his predecessors at the White 
House . but he enjoyed great qualities w^hich they 
lacked, foremost the king quality of courage, physi- 
cal, moral, and political. — Poore. 

c. ] t Lincoln had lived at a time when printing 
\yas unknown, he would in a few years, by his prov- 
erbs and fables, have become mythological, like 
^sop or Pilpay, or one of the Seven Wise Masters, 
the story-tellers of antiquity. — Emej'son. 

8, Composition, *' Lincoln's Political Life." 
(1 he pioneer boy as he grew up began to be inter- 
ested in politics. With a devouring love for books, 
cleverness at extempore speaking, and readiness to 
make friends, he had worked up from country mer- 
chant to a lawyer and surveyor. He was elected to 
the Legislature, then to Congress, and was offered 
the Governorship of Oregon. Returning to his 
home in Springfield, Illinois, and liis wife and boys, 
Lincoln took up his law-practice again. He was 



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LINCOLN THE PATRIOT. 



nominatea unsuccessfully for Senator, and in i860, 
amid much opposition, he was elected President of 
the United States.) 

9. Readings illustrating Lincoln's appearance. 




a. His towering figure, sharp and spare, 

Was with such nervous tension strung, 
As if on each strained sinew swung 
The burden of a people's care. 

His changing face what pen can draw .^ 

Pathetic, kindly, droll, or stern ; 

And with a glance so quick to learn 
The inmost truth of all he saw. 

— Charles G. Hal pine. 

b. When he left this city (Springfield, 111.) h.. 
was fifty-one years old. He was about six feec 
four inches In height; thin, wiry, sinewy, raw- 
boned. His usual weight was one hundred and- 



LINCOLN THE PATRIOT. 9 

sixty pounds. His structure was loose and 
leathery; his body was shrunk and shrivelled, hav- 
ing dark skin, dark hair, — looking woe-struck. 
The whole man, body and mind, worked slowly, 
creakingly, as if it needed oiling. Physically, he 
was a very powerful man, lifting with ease four or 
six hundred pounds. His mind was like his body, 
and worked slowly and strongly. 

His head was long and tall from the base of the 
brain and from the eyebrows. His forehead was 
narrow, but high; his cheek-bones were high, sharp, 
and prominent ; his eyebrows heavy and promi- 
nent ; his jaws were long, upcurved, and heavy; 
his nose was large, long, and blunt ; his face was 
long, sallow, and cadaverous, shrunk, shrivelled, 
wrinkled, and dry; his ears were large, and ran out 
almost at right angles from his head ; his neck 
was trim and neat, his head being well balanced 
upon it. 

He was not a pretty man by any means, nor was 
he an ugly one; he was a homely man, careless of 
his looks, plain-looking and plain-acting. He had 
no pomp, display, or dignity, so-called. He ap- 
peared simple in his carriage and bearing. He was 
a sad-looking man ; his melancholy dripped from 
him as he walked. — IV. H. Herndon. 

lO. Piano music, variations upon national airs. 

IK Recitation, "A Tribute." 

The angels of your thoughts are climbing still 

The shining ladder of liis fame, 
And have not ever reached the top, nor ever will, 

While this low life pronounces his high name. 

But yonder, where they dream, or dare, or do, 
The " good " or " great " beyond our reach, 

To talk of him must make old language new 
In heavenly, as it did in human, speecli. 

—Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, 



10 LiNLOL.N THE PATRIOT. 

12. Essay, "Lincoln as President." — (As time 
wore on and the war held its terrible course, upon 
no one of all those who lived through it was its 
effect more apparent than upon the President. 
He bore the sorrows of the nation in his own 
heart; he suffered deeply, not only from disap- 
pointments, from treachery, from hope deferred, 
from the open assaults of enemies, and from the 
sincere anger of discontented friends, but also from 
the world-wide distress and affliction which flowed 
from the great conflict in which he was engaged 
and which he could not evade. One of the most 
tender and compassionate of men, he was forced 
to give orders which cost thousands of lives ; by 
nature a man of order and thrift, he saw the daily 
spectacle of unutterable waste and destruction 
which he could not prevent. Under this frightful 
ordeal his demeanor and disposition changed ; . . . 
he aged with great rapidity. — JoJin Hay, in ' The 
Century. ' 

13. Readings illustrating ''Lincoln's Character- 
istics." 

a. Tender-hearted, but inflexible when occasion 
required; sunny-tempered, but tinged with melan- 
choly; simple in speech and life, but capable of 
eloquence and of stirring words that will live for- 
ever; above all else logical; brave, broad-minded, 
just, and true. — B7'ooks. 

b. There is now a letter before me in which he 
announces his motto in political affairs, " Bear and 
forbear." This self-poise, self-abnegation, and for- 
bearance enabled him to bring the ship of state 
safely through the stormy seas. — W. M. Dickson. 

c. He read Shakespeare more than all other 
writers together. He delighted in Burns. Of 
Thomas Hood he was also fond. He read Bryant 



LINCOLN THE PATRIOT. II 

and Whittier with appreciation ; there were many 
poems of Liohnes's that he read with intense rehsh. 
" The Last Leaf " was one of his favorites. A poem 
by Wilham Knox, '' Oh, why should the spirit of 
mortal be proud ? " he learned by heart in his 
youth, and used to repeat all his life. — JoJin Hay, 

d. When Mr. Frank Carpenter was painting Lin- 
coln in his famous picture of the Reading of the 
Proclamation of Emancipation, the conversation 
turned upon Shakespeare. "Hamlet" held a 
peculiar charm for the President, and he remarked, 
"There is one passage of the play of ' Hamlet' 
that is very apt to be slurred over by the actor, or 
omitted altogether, and it seems to me one of the 
choicest parts. It is the soliloquy of the king, after 
the murder. It always struck me as one of the 
finest touches of nature in the world." Throwing 
himself into the very spirit of the scene, Lincoln 
repeated from memory, with a feeling and apprecia- 
tion unsurpassed by any actor upon the stage, the 
thirty-five lines beginning: 

" O my offence is rank, it smells to heaven." 

14. Recitation, " The First American." 

So, always firmly, he ; 
He knew to bide his time. 

And can liis fame aljide, 
Still patient in his simple faith sublime, 

Till the wise years decide. 
Great captains, with their drums and guns 

Disturb our judgment for the hour. 
But at last silence comes ; 

These all are gone, and, standing like a tower, 
Our children shall behold iiis fame, 

The kindly-earnest, brave, foreseeing man, 
Sagacious, patient, dreading i)raise, not blame. 

New birth of our new soil, tlie lirst American. 
— From LowclTs "" Covuncmoratioii Ode.'* 



12 LINCOLN THH PATRIOT. 

15. Recitation of extracts from Lincoln's 
speeches showing his national spirit. 

a. If I ever feel the soul within me elevate and 
expand to dimensions not wholly unworthy of its 
Almighty Architect, it is when I contemplate 
the cause of my country, deserted by all the world 
beside, and I standing up boldly a:.d alone, and 
hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors. Here, 
without contemplating consequences, before high 
Heaven, and in the face of the world, I swear eter- 
nal fidelity to the just cause, as I deem it, of the 
land of my life, my liberty, and my love I — SpcccJi 
delivered in i8jg. 

b. Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a 
firm reliance on Him who has never yet forsaken 
this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in 
the best way, our present difficulty. We are not 
enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. 
Though passion may have strained, it must not 
break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords 
of memory, stretching from every battlefield and 
patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone 
all over this broad land will yet swell the chorus 
of the Union, when again touched, as surely they 
will be, by the better angels of our nature. — From 
h is Inaiigii ral A d dress , 1861. 

e. My paramount object is to save the Union, 
and neither to save nor destroy slavery. If there 
be those wdio would not save the Union unless they 
could at the same time save slavery, I do not agree 
with them. If I could save the Union without 
freeing any slave I would do it. If I could save it 
by freeing all the slaves I would do it ; and if I 
could do it by freeing some and leaving others 
alone, I would also do that. What I do about 
slaverv and the colored race 1 do because I believe 



LINCOLN THE PATRIOT 13 

it helps to save the Union, and what I forbear, I 
forbear because I do not beheve it helps to save the 
Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe 
that what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall 
do more whenever I believe doing more will help 
the cause. 

16. Singing of ''The Red, White, and Blue." 

17. Recitations of " English Tributes." 

Patriot, who made the pageantries of kings 
Like shadows seem, and unsubstantial things. 
— R. IV. Dale {an Eiiglishuiaii). 

b. I shall never forget the moment when, in Lon- 
don, the tidings of Lincoln's death were brought to 
me. It seemed as if we were all afloat in the midst 
of a boundless ocean. — Charles F. Adams. 

c. A permanent English tribute to Lincoln's 
memory is the Lincoln Tower, adjoining Rev. New- 
man Hall's church in London. Half of the cost 
(seven thousand pounds) was subscribed wjth great 
readiness by the English; the other half by Ameri- 
cans. A stone over the entrance bears the name of 
Lincoln ; tvv^o class-rooms are named for Washington 
and Wilberforce. The spire is built in alternate 
stripes, witli stars between. A marble tablet gives 
the history of the tower and the man whom it com- 
memorates. 

d. The Old World and the New, from sea to sea, 

Utter one voice of sympathy and shame ! 
Sore heart, so stopped when it at last beat high ; 
Sad life, cut short just as its triumph came. 

— From the London Punch, 

18. Reading, " Lincoln's signature." 

The roll containing the Emancipation Proclama- 
tion was taken to Mr. Lincoln at noon on the first 



14 LINCOLN THE PATRIOT. 

day of January, 1863, by Secretary Seward and his 
son Frederick. As it lay unrolled before him, Mr. 
Lincoln took a pen, dipped it in ink, moved his 
hand to the place for the signature, held it a mo- 
ment, and then removed his hand and dropped the 
pen. After a little hesitation he again took up 
the pen and went through the same movement as 
before. Mr. Lincoln then turned to Mr. Seward 
and said: " I have been shaking hands since nine 
o'clock this morning, and my right arm is almost 
paralysed. If my name ever goes into history it 
will be for this act, and my whole soul is in it. If 
my hand trembles when I sign the Proclamation, 
all who examine the document hereafter will say, 
''He hesitated!" He then turned to the table, 
took up the pen again, and slowly, firmly, wrote 
that Abraham Lincoln with which the whole world 
is familiar. He looked up, smiled, and said, "That 
will do." — Colonel Forney. 

19. Recitations, '' Lincoln's Presentiments." 

a. On the last Sunday of his life Lincoln read 
aloud some extracts from ''Macbeth." Was it a 
prophetic spirit that made him give an impressive- 
ness in particular to the lines: 

" Duncan is in his grave ; 
After life's fitful fever, he sleeps well ; 
Treason has done his worst : nor steel, nor poison, 
Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing 
Can touch him further " ? 

b. Mr. Lincoln may not have expected death 
from the hand of an assassin, but he had an impres- 
sion, amounting to a presentiment, that his life 
would end with the war. In July, 1864, he told a 
newspaper man that he was certain he should. not 
outlast the rebellion. It was a time of dissension 
among the Republican leaders* Maiiy of his best 



LINCOLN THE PATRIOT. I5 

friends had deserted him, and were talking of an 
opposition convention to nominate another candi- 
date ; universal gloom was spread throughout the 
people. The North was tired of the war, and 
supposed an honorable peace attainable. Mr. Lin- 
coln knew it was not — that any peace at that time 
would be only disunion. He said: " I have faith 
in the people. They will not consent to disunion. 
The dano;er is in their beino- misled. Let them 
know the truth, and the country is safe," His 
haggard, careworn appearance called out the remark 
that he was wearing himself out with work. " I 
can't work less," he replied; "but it isn't that, — 
work never troubled me. Things look badly, and 
I can't avoid anxiety. Personally, I care nothing 
about a re-election ; but if our divisions defeat us, I 
fear for the country. The right will eventually tri- 
umph, but I may never live to see it. I feel a 
presentiment that I shall not outlast the RebelHon. 
When it is over, my work will be done." — Frank 
Carpenter. 

20. Recitations for two pupils, " His Birthday, 
Feb. 1 2th, 1809, and His Death-day, April 15th, 
1865." 

«. No minster bells' loud paean 

Proclaimed the moment when 
He came to earth to be an 

Uncrowned king of men ; 
No purple to enfold him, 

Our country's royal guest ; 
But loving arms to hold him. 

Silence ! God knoweth best ! 

K The way was long and cheerless, 

But dawn succeeded night ; 
That soul, so brave and fearless, 
Dwells evermore in light ! 



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No shadows dim liis glory, 

Our hearts his praise resound, 

And history tells his story, — 
Our nation's king is crowned ! 

— Sophie E. Eastman. 

21. Readings, *' Lincoln's Grave." 

Copyright, 1896, by The Century Co. 




From 



Century Book of Famous Americans." 
Century Company. 



By permission of the 



a. In Ihe Oak Ridge Cemetery, a mile or more 
outside the city of Springfield, Illinois, is the tomb 
of Abraham Lincoln. A marble sarcophagus stands 
over the grave, with the single word " Lincoln " en- 
graved upon a carved wreath. Above this is the 
sentence, '' With malice towards none, with char- 
ity for all." 

b. Years pass away, but freedom does not pass; 

Thrones crumble, but man's birthright crumbles not; 



LINCOLN THE PATRIOT. I? 

And, like the wind across the prairie grass 
A whole world's aspirations fan this spot 
With ceaseless pantings after liberty, 

One breath of which would make even Russia fair, 
And blow sweet summer through the exile's care 

And set the exile free; 
For which 1 pray, here, in the open air 

Of Freedom's morning-tide, by Lincoln's grave. 
— Maurice Thompsoru 
C. We rest in peace, where his sad eyes 

Saw peril, strife, and pain; 
His was the awful sacrifice, 
And ours the priceless gain. 

— W/iiitier, 
d. And him the good, the great, 

Crowned by a martyr's fate, 
What words can fitly utter forth 
His manly virtues and his worth? 

— Benjamin, 
e Rest, noble martyr! rest in peace 

Rest with the true and brave. 
Who, like thee, fell in Freedom's cause, 
The Nation's life to save. 

— Gil r ley, 
22. Singing of '' The Star-Spangled Banner." 

•' Banner Days of the Republic " is an effective, patriotic 
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the recitations. The grouping of the chief points in our na- 
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original speeches makes an entertainment particularly appro- 
priate for Lincoln's Birthday. It is also adapted for Columbus 
or Discovery Day. Thanksgiving, Christmas, Washington's 
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" Patriotic Songs for Patriotic Occasions is a collection ot 
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Practical Elocution 

By J. W. Shoemaker, A. M. 

300 pages 

Cloth, Leather Back, ^1.25 

This work is the outgrowth of 
actual class-room experience, and is 
a practical, common-sense treatment 
of the whole subject. It is clear and 
concise, yet comprehensive, and is 
absolutely free from the entangling 
technicalities that are so frequently found in books of 
this class. 

Conversation, which is the basis of all true Elocution, 
is regarded as embracing all the germs of speech and 
action. Prominent attention is therefore given to the 
cultivation of this the most common form of human ex- 
pression. 

General principles and practical processes are pre- 
sented for the cultivation of strength, purity, and flexi- 
bility of Voice, for the improvement of distinctness and 
correctness in Articulation, and for the development of 
Soul power in delivery. 

The work includes a systematic treatment of Gesture 
in its several departments of position, facial expression, 
and bodily movement, a brief system of Gymnastics 
bearing upon vocal development and grace of move- 
ment, and also a chapter on Methods of Instruction, for 
teachers. 

Sold by all booksellers, or sent, prepaid, upon receipt 
of price. 

The Penn Publishing Company 

923 Arch Street, Philadelphia 



The National School 
OF Elocution and Oratory 

TEMPLE BUILDING, BROAD 
AND CHERRY STREETS 
PHILADELPHIA 



npHE first chartered School of Elocution in America. 

Thorough instruction in all branches of public 
reading, oratory, and dramatic art. 

Prepares teachers of elocution, literature and 
physical training. Its students and graduates occupy 
prominent positions in all parts of the world. 

By its instruction, weak voices are strengthened, 
bad voices made good, indistinct and faulty speech is 
corrected, awkwardness of manner is eliminated, con- 
fidence is gained, and character is developed. 

A faculty efficient and enthusiastic. A diploma 
that counts. Students helped to good positions. 

.Classes, day, evening, Saturday. Also private in- 
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sional people. Illustrated catalogue for the asking. 

-Mrs. J. W. Shoemaker, 
George P. Bible, 

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